Lecturers at South Sudan’s premium institution of higher learning, University of Juba, have threatened to lay down their tools should the government fail to pay their salary arrears.
The dons have given the government until Monday, April 10, to settle their two-month arrears. If the government fails to do so, their representatives warned, the lecturers will go on industrial action, according to a resolution passed at the extraordinary meeting held on March 4.
“The Dean’s Board resolved to advise the administration of the University of Juba to suspend all learning activities should the Ministry of Finance and Planning fail to pay the salaries for the months of February and March 2023, by April 10, based on the adjusted unified salary structure for public institutions of higher learning,” a statement seen by City Review reads in parts.
Most of the public universities in South Sudan have continued to go on strike over the delayed payment of salaries and the failure by the Ministry of Finance to release the funds in time.
On Tuesday, the board of the CTSAMVM, a body that monitors peace violations in the agreement, failed to discuss the content of the report tabled before them, adding that it was prepared at a time when the staff charged with collecting that data were on strike.